Subj : Re: Anyone using PGP/GPG in here?
To   : Lizard King
From : Vk3jed
Date : Wed Nov 07 2018 01:52 pm

-=> On 11-05-18 15:50, Lizard King wrote to Vk3jed <=-

 LK> I very much hope you are right, but I am still hearing various
 LK> government agencies griping about the fact that terrorists can encrypt
 LK> their email and there's no way for anyone to read it.  That is true, as

Yeah, they make noises about that occasionally here, but there's no political
support for it.

 LK> far as it goes, but to my knowledge terrorists aren't using strong
 LK> crypto.  Last I heard they were logging into gmail, writing emails,
 LK> quitting out before sending, and then a second person would go in and
 LK> view the saved draft.  No email sent.

That is a clever approach, and the only crypto used is the same TLS that we use
for Internet banking.

 LK> But when the government can take away our rights and claim to be doing
 LK> it for our own protection, the temptation always seems to be too much
 LK> for them to stand.  I have a feeling that somewhere down the line we'll
 LK> hear people arguing that crypto is fine for banking and stuff like
 LK> that, but only terrorists would want to encrypt their personal
 LK> correspondence.

They will try, but given there's a lot of commerce done in email, and email is
used for so many forms of validation, there's a bigger case for the _increased_
use of cryptography by private citizens in email. 

 LK> Let me put it another way: 20 years ago, would you have believed that
 LK> you'd have to risk being groped by a government employee to get on an
 LK> airplane? Somehow we accept this as normal.

Depends if they're cute. :D

It's not quite as bad here yet.  Yes, security is tight, but no groping that
I've found (and I took a couple of flights last week).


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